If You Count Your Scars

A poem for the ones who are hurting

Photo by Kyle Bushnell on Unsplash

If you count your scars, you’ll find a roadmap of the places you once stood: the stages where you found your voice, the clubs where your heart broke, the hours you spent walking alone on cobblestone streets,

looking for a sign that everything would be fine, that you were headed in the right direction, that you could find your way back, or…